Ralph Lauren: Ready-to-Wear SS18
This was the next chapter in what we are calling his “Live Like Ralph” series. Last season we were hot-wiring with Ralph Lauren, this season we are holidaying with Ralph. And so we were gently...
This was the next chapter in what we are calling his “Live Like Ralph” series. Last season we were hot-wiring with Ralph Lauren, this season we are holidaying with Ralph. And so we were gently...
If you are a creative in the fashion industry, working with friends is always the best; they instantly get what you’re doing, will do whatever you ask without question, and the result always feels...
Marie-Amélie Sauvé captioned it perfectly on an Instagram post, just: “Janaye walking into the future” next to a picture of the model on the Louis Vuitton catwalk, wearing a silver...
It never ceases to amaze us the craftsmanship and skill of the Thom Browne atelier; the fabrics are unique and sewn with such skill and designed with such panache and nowse it really is something to...
In an age of imagery, where pictures have replaced words, the resulting glut of photographs and “virals”, which imprint on us daily through social media, the best fashion brands are...
After being grounded for smoking in her bedroom (again), young Miuccia was determined to meet her biker boyfriend that Saturday night. After pulling her gauze shift over her best geometric print...
“It’s best to reserve judgment and really try to encourage women and fashion to be more pro-women,” Stella McCartney said recently about the way fashion and feminism can be mutually...
It was like a see-saw between pretty and hard, goth and garden party. Sarah Burton’s Alexander McQueen became hers a long time ago now and yet she is tireless in pushing the house in new and...
Just about everybody has a house check these days have you noticed? It’s become lingua franca for history and provenance and nowse. No faking that at Hermès. Since its inception in 1837 as a...
In a continuation of sportswear and sportswear gestures, Sacai designer and former studio ace at Comme des Garçons and Junya Watanabe, Chitose Abe, has cemented herself as one of the top tier...
“Fashion is a tool for self-metamorphosis,” said new Artistic Director of French powerhouse Givenchy, Clare Waight Keller, before her show this morning. The Royal College of Art Masters...
All eyes were on Mr Valentino – the original one – at the Valentino show, earlier this afternoon. The 85-year-old designer and ex-creative of the fabled Roman house sat front row next...
Here we hand over to our Céline correspondent Ms Laura Weir – editor of completely ace Evening Standard Magazine – she’s never been a “Céline-slave”. She’s...
Balenciaga have made old fashioned fashionable, don’t you think? As in not the “olllllld old fashioned” as in 10 years ago recycling trends theory thing, more the “bit odd, I...
Here’s what Vivienne Westwood said about the new Spring collection she worked closely on with her husband, and designer of the brand, Andreas Kronthaler. It’s a lot of fun:...
Turn it UP! This is glammest, sexiest, shiniest, champagne-fuelled club you’ve ever been to where Elie Saab-clad ladies with long legs look lush. We’re not invited because we’re too...
Acid bright separates passed through a cowboy filter: or something like that. It was so bright and “up” and loud and god knows at the Acne Studios show just, that it was difficult to...
Haider Ackermann marches to the beat of a different drum, as Linda Ronstadt may have once sung. His world is full of beautiful women doing beautiful things *really*. Not a moodboard pretence: his...
The fashion designer who can marry elevated and thoughtful clothes with something that just “pulls on”, which “works,” which answers that age old question: “what exactly am...
It’s a fascinating axis at Issey Miyake as the studio under design director Yoshiyuki Miyamae stands, just like his predecessors, with one foot in the natural – a constant source of...
Who the hell are we anyway? I mean, honestly, we’re subjected to, and have to live with, SO. MUCH. IMAGERY. Everywhere we look we consume (visually): art and art for advertising and “art...
…and at 9.30am or thereabouts this morning, the pilgrimage of Junya people gathered for lessons at the Université Paris Descartes. The seasonal pop-up Junya Watanabe show – rarely in the...
Janus is the two-faced god of doorways: one way in and one way out; it’s an age old allusion to the split personality. Of two people in one. Janus was the title of Undercover designer Jun...
Extreme collar-pop Lady Di-style on one shirt. Extreme froufrou frockage in peach on another. Extreme Lady Di or certainly a cooler version of “the people’s princess” and arch enemy...
We’re just out of the mind-blowing Rick Owens show, sat next to and around the Palais de Tokyo fountains in Paris. Suddenly the fountains shot up around 10 metres high. The music was a...
At the backstage bunfight which followed Olivier Rousteing’s standout show for Balmain, just, the fashion press and high-spending buyers queued up to congratulate the French mega-talent. The...
Much black, and that’s just the eyeliner: willkommen one and all to the beautiful dark world of Demeulemeester. Here stick thin moody types in stringy ballet flats wear monochrome. It’s...
After the surprise departure of British designer Clare Waight Keller as designer at Chloé last season, the French fashion house welcomed Natacha Ramsay-Levi to the helm, after she quit her post as...
Today’s the day: Olivier Rousteing’s SS18 womenswear outing for Balmain. Yay! We’re big fans. His biggest fan, one Ms Neophitou, will be sat FROW – the rest of will be...
A string of airport flight announcements kept Margiela fans entertained in the minutes before the start of this morning’s Maison Margiela show. Look 1 and a camel raincoat chopped at the hem...
Maria Grazia Chiuri’s letting loose. A “shameless excitation of the Sixties” decrees the release – her latest this afternoon. A dizzying homage to Dior forebear Marc Bohan and his muse,...
Against a smoky runway built on the capital’s famous Fontaine du Trocadero, and in view of the sparkly lights of the Eiffel Tower, Saint Laurent designer Anthony Vaccarello just reignited...
Here’s what Dries Van Noten said about his show just, or rather the woman he channeled: “…she knows the rules to break the rules, cocktails at five. Addicted to fun, elegance and...
Garments tossed and turned and stitched to hold “just there”: the stream of ideas that came out of the Y/Project show last night could have fuelled half a dozen collections for your...
Simon Holloway’s changing things up a bit this season – he’s got the whole Agnona mill at his disposable, so why not show off exactly what they can do? Which meant a move from...
Colour makes people feel happy. It’s proven. There’s a name for it: chromotherapy. That was written on the notes for MSGM this afternoon: “a natural method of treatment that uses the...
After all that, black is best. The Dolce & Gabbana boys opened with it – a stream of black frocks, the ones that the boys do best – you know them – lean, revealing and totally...
The Marni woman was curvy. To clarify: she wasn’t, she was normal model size, but her clothes were. Curvy clothes. Now that’s a concept. Allow us to explain – think: the curves of the New...
More fresh Milanese meat, and this time there’s two of them: Lucie Meier, her of ex-Dior, and Luke Meier, him of OAMC and ex-Supreme. Notice how they share a surname? They’re married. Aw. Today...
Worth waking up for. This time Tomas said he started with colour, finding himself fascinated with the Marble Room at Kedleston Hall in Britain – the blue of its frescoes, the rose of its walls,...
Somewhere between orgasm and heart attack. This was so mega. OKAY, so you probably know by now that something MAHOOSIVE happened at the end, but we’ll start at the beginning anyway. Sooo. Show...
New Milanese arrival: Paul Surridge. And what did he do to take on the venerable house of Robert Cavalli this afternoon? He took the roof off it. Well, not entirely – he actually just took the...
Mr Armani has spoken, and he’s said prints. Well, actually he said: “the power of artistic gesture – free, expressive and instinctive – meets the sophisticated, linear evidence of...
Very excited to see Paul Surridge’s very first collection for the house of Roberto Cavalli. He’s Garth’s mate. And a very good designer – having cut his teeth at Jil Sander, Z Zegna and...
If it wasn’t quite a famous slogan already, I would suggest the following for Erika Cavallini’s offering this AM: easy, breezy, beautiful. Let’s be honest, the EC girl doesn’t have a whole...
Say it with flowers. Say it with Gigi. Or, alternatively, say it as with Gigi AS flowers. A bunch of them. “Florals? They’re always a thing for spring,” says Jeremy. “But they’ve never...
Face Milan-wards and pray. PRAY. Your new season wardrobe has, just moments ago, been decided by Miuccia Prada, because today was Prada womenswear show day, a day of such...
An explosion of stripes. There really is no other way to describe Fendi’s SS18 offering this afternoon. A lie, actually, try this – press release: “Italian Futurism meets tropical travel”...
More live streaming fun. If we continue at this rate, we’ll likely put an end to fashion month altogether because everyone will realise they’re much better off staying at home and...
Today we face Milan-wards and pray to Miuccia Prada, and thank her for the bountiful fashions we are about to enjoy, because this evening she presents her latest Prada womenswear offering. Sophia...